The Emergency Preparedness Team reviews operational issues related to emergency preparedness planning. The EPT recommends policy and reports on goals and progress to the Environmental Safety and Risk Management Committee (ESRM), a Special Committee of the University
chaired by the Executive Vice President. For more information about ESRM, including
its charter and membership, please see the committee website. Current membership of the EPT is listed below:

Reviewing and supporting UHS and EHS in coordination of medical professionals, hospitals, and public health officials to develop plans relating to mass casualty incidents and situations that may require mass inoculation.

Enhancing the ongoing program of communication, coordination and training with departmental representatives and building managers in the Emergency Coordinator Program; updating building evacuation plans, as appropriate.

Creating regular exercises for the promotion of inter-departmental cooperation, and cooperation among municipal, state, regional and federal agencies.

History

In 2001, The University Environmental Safety and Risk Management
Committee formed an Emergency Preparedness Task Force (EPTF) to review our
existing planning and preparedness efforts and develop appropriate responses
to credible threats to the health and safety of the University Community. In October 2012, recognizing that the EPTF had completed its work in creating plans and building an emergency response structure, the EPTF was reconfigured as the Emergency Preparedness Team (EPT). The EPT meets two or three times a year, as determined by the Emergency Preparedness Steering Committee, a group comprised of: